English internationals Simon Cope and Thomas Paske have won the prestigious Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs, a three-day event run by the American Contract Bridge League and currently being held in Las...

The National Teams League season 7 has now concluded. In Division 1, team "Winter" (Geoff Kenyon, Mike Leese, Liam Sanderson, Sarah Teshome, Daniel Winter, Richard Winter, Steve Wood) finished...

The National Interclub Knockout (NICKO) has been won by Petersfield Bridge Club A. The team was Owen Leigh, James Clark, Steve Preston & Mike Kinsey ( pictured). They beat Milton Keynes Bridge...

At the AGM yesterday (Wednesday, 27th November), the EBU recognised various members' contributions to bridge in England. The meeting was held live in London at the Royal National Hotel. For award...

At this week's AGM the 2024 Sim Pairs prize draw took place. Two clubs were drawn from those which entered the EBED Sims and six from those entering the other sims. Each receives £200. The...

The EBU AGM took place yesterday, 27th November. The following people were elected/re-elected to the EBU Board: Board There were eight nominations for five positions: The votes received were as...

The latest of the Online One-Day Green Pointed events of 2024 took place on Sunday 24th November. It was won by Kostadin Vasilev & Anton Mauve ( pictured), with a score of 116 VPs. In second...

Congratulations to the England Women's team who won the Gold medal at the recent 2nd Women's Champions' Cup, which took place over the weekend at the Boario Terme, Congress Centre (14th - 16th...

EBED (English Bridge Education and Development) have a new weekly online drop-in session for young people learning bridge and Minibridge. The club will meet every Thursday unless it is a Bank...

The qualifier for the Tollemache Cup, the inter-county championships for teams of eight, was held last weekend 9th-10th November, on RealBridge. There were two groups with four teams from each...

Following the success of the 1st European Online Women's Team Championship (June 2024), the EBL Women's Bridge Committee invite you to join the 2nd European Online Women's Team Championship on...

The 16th World Bridge Games (formerly known as the Olympiad) has now completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina (21st Oct - 3rd Nov 2024). At the conclusion of the round robin stage the Women's and...

The latest of the Online One-Day Green Pointed events of 2024 took place on Saturday 12th October. It was won by Paddy Murphy & Mark Roderick ( pictured), with a score of 118 VPs. In second place...

The Crockfords Cup final took place over the weekend and was won by team Plackett: Simon Cope, Peter Crouch, Alexander Allfrey & Andrew Robson ( pictured). Richard Plackett & Espen Erichsen, not...

The National Handicap Pairs Championship was held on Sunday 8th September, with 12 clubs hosting heats around the country. This year the event was run as part of the Bridge - It's a Big Deal...

The 2023/2024 Seniors Knockout (Gerard Faulkner Salver) has now concluded. In the match, the team of Paul Hackett, John Holland, Alan Mould, Sandra Penfold, Norman Selway & Brian Senior beat the...

After ten years, it has been decided that the existing Player of the Year Championship will finish when this season is completed, after the Crockfords final in September 2024. Instead, it will be...

There are new Blue and White Books available – effective from 1st August. You can view the new versions online via the links below or order new paper copies from the Bridge Warehouse. The White...

The Master Points and Licencing Handbook 2024 has changes to allow more formats for County and Inter-county events, and to allow more awards for matches won for shorter matches. Section 6.4...

The WBF have announced that the Laws of Duplicate Bridge have been amended, effective from 1st January 2024. The WBF website has an announcement of the changes and the revised Laws. LAW 73 –...

An EBU Disciplinary Committee considered the following charge against Ian Hart (BBO account name: Ian273) and Richard Peate (BBO account name: palindrone) in September 2023: That when the...

An EBU Disciplinary Committee considered the following charge against Adam Wiseberg (BBO account name: adam 13) at a hearing in June 2023. That the defendant used his access privileges as a...

We are often approached for help finding partners or completing a team for one of our events, we have now created a new forum for members to utilise. Please use the new forum to post your...

Released today: There is an update to RealBridge (1.3.3) which will make it possible to upload your system card. Information on how to prepare a system card, convert it to a pdf and upload it to...

As a reminder, you can connect the EBU events calendar, to your personal calendar. To do so, import or link to the iCalendar feed. Important note: some personal calendars offer both import and...

Some teams playing EBU knockout matches would like to be able to do so on RealBridge and this is now possible. Log on to My EBU -> Utilities -> Book Events in the fortnight before you want to...

Following a review, the EBU Safeguarding Policy has been updated. Whilst bridge is predominantly an adult pursuit there are a significant number of young people who take part in our activities...

The Crockfords Cup final took place over the weekend and was won by team Leslie: Ben Norton, Kieran Dyke, Michael Byrne & Mike Bell (pictured from left). Tim Leslie & Ollie Burgess, not pictured...

In response to requests from those who played in the original Lockdown League, Oliver Cowan is introducing a new league with 2 x 8 board matches each week, with a new cycle every 6 weeks...

As you will know, Monday 19th September is the day of the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II and the EBU has decided to cancel all online BBO games run by the national organisation on that day. It...

We are sad to report the death of Barry Brelsford. Barry a long serving member of the Lancashire Contract Bridge Association, and held various positions within the LCBA for over 20 years. He also...

The new clubhouse of the York Bridge Club has been officially opened by the Lord Mayor Councillor David Carr. The new premises are an impressive purpose built building located at The Green, Acomb...

The premier British teams event Closing date: Monday, 3rd October 2022 The 2023 Gold Cup will run from October 2022 to the Finals in October 2023. The Silver Plate, also administered by BGB, is...